scholarly journals A Comparative Study of Shi’a Public Shari’a Law and Sunni Public Shari’a Law (Administrative Law and Governance in Islam)

Author(s):  
Hossein Sorayaii Azar

Public law notions seen from shari’a law perspective have not been duly discussed in Islamic countries. In the discourse of rule of law in Islam we are confronted with a dilemma , moral values of a   religion are not compatible with the coercive legislative measures . Thus the authentic application of shari’a rules is feasible only if a scientific hermeneutic of shari’a law is adapted to the exigencies of today’s modern life, while the outlook on the boundaries of hermeneutic remains obscure. Regarding the  public finance in Islam and State owned banking system, in many Islamic countries both Shi’a concept banks and Sunni concept banks, while prohibiting usury have worked out a well established shari’a law compliant loan system in favor of the customers. Also economic democracy from shari’a law point of view finds its way through other means provided in shari’a rules (Shi’a or Sunni). The notion of an Islamic administrative law is rather misperceived. The actual polemic on governance and administrative law in Islam is considered as being an outcome of the conflict between shari’a based concepts and notions asserted by faquihs and jurists and the legal practices and usages of Islamic States since the expansion of Islamic territories (700 AD).

Author(s):  
Ethan J. Leib ◽  
Stephen R. Galoob

This chapter examines how fiduciary principles apply to public offices, focusing on what it means for officeholders to comport themselves to their respective public roles appropriately. Public law institutions can operate in accordance with fiduciary norms even when they are enforced differently from the remedial mechanisms available in private fiduciary law. In the public sector, fiduciary norms are difficult to enforce directly and the fiduciary norms of public office do not overlap completely with the positive law governing public officials. Nevertheless, core fiduciary principles are at the heart of public officeholding, and public officers need to fulfill their fiduciary role obligations. This chapter first considers three areas of U.S. public law whose fiduciary character reinforces the tenet that public office is a public trust: the U.S. Constitution’s “Emoluments Clauses,” administrative law, and the law of judging. It then explores the fiduciary character of public law by looking at the deeper normative structure of public officeholding, placing emphasis on how public officeholders are constrained by the principles of loyalty, care, deliberation, conscientiousness, and robustness. It also compares the policy implications of the fiduciary view of officeholding with those of Dennis Thompson’s view before concluding with an explanation of how the application of fiduciary principles might differ between public and private law settings and how public institutions might be designed or reformed in light of fiduciary norms.


Author(s):  
A.P. Ushakova ◽  

From the standpoint of the dominant interest criterion the article examines the justification of the legislator`s decision to apply public law methods in order to regulate relations concerning the use of land for infrastructural facilities placing. The author gives the arguments in favor of understanding the public interest as the interest of the whole society as a system, rather than the interest of an indefinite range of persons or the majority of the population. The author concludes that there is the simultaneous presence in the specified legal relations and private interests of the participants of legal relations, and public interests of society as a system. Both types of interests in these legal relations are important, but in terms of different aspects of the legal impact mechanism. Public interest is important because its realization is the purpose of legal regulation of this type of legal relations, from this point of view it acts as a dominant interest. The private interest of the holder of a public servitude is important as an incentive to attract the efforts of private individuals to achieve a publicly significant goal. The private interest of a land plot owner is important from the point of view of securing the right of ownership. It is substantiated that the public servitude is not an arbitrary decision of the legislator, but an example of application of the incentive method in the land law, which provides a favorable legal regime for a socially useful activity.


2021 ◽  
pp. 50-52
Author(s):  
Delphine Costa

This chapter describes administrative procedure and judicial review in France. In French public law, no constitutional provision provides for judicial review of administrative measures. Nor is there a convention providing for judicial review of administrative measures. This is only envisaged by the laws and regulations, in particular the Administrative Justice Code and the Code of Relations between the Public and the Administration. The administrative courts exercise extensive control over the acts or measures of the public administration, including both individual decisions and regulatory acts, but some are nonetheless beyond judicial review. Where an act or measure is contested on procedural grounds, judicial review takes place only under certain conditions: the procedural defect must have deprived the applicant of a guarantee or it must have influenced the meaning of the decision taken. Two types of judicial remedy exist in administrative law: it is therefore up to the applicant to limit their application before the administrative judge.


2018 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
pp. 1-20
Author(s):  
Irene Patrícia Nohara

The present article aims to expose, using the hypothetical-deductive method, the origins and influences of Brazilian Administrative Law. It is a descriptive article that focuses on the main characteristics of the discipline, belonging to the branch of public law. It also seeks to address recent changes to provide an up-to-date overview of the Brazilian Administrative Law system. It tries to explain how the new institutes and the reforms in the matter contribute to the functioning of the Public Administration.


Author(s):  
Vincent Chiao

This chapter extends the public law conception to the theory of criminalization. The first half of the chapter is devoted to considering whether the criminal law has a privileged subject matter or “core,” focusing especially on Feinberg’s influential account of the criminal law as a system of direct prohibitions. The chapter argues that a subject-matter-based approach has difficulty coming to grips with actual criminal law systems in modern administrative states, in which so-called mala prohibita offenses predominate. The second half of the chapter turns to sketching how we might approach the question of criminalization from a public law point of view, both in general and with reference to the political ideal of anti-deference (sketched in Chapter 3) in particular. Along the way, the chapter argues that the (very popular) wrongfulness principle turns out to be either empty or implausible, and hence that we should reject any version of the harm principle, or of legal moralism, that presupposes it.


Twejer ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 3 (3) ◽  
pp. 707-738
Author(s):  
Mohammed Waheed Dahham ◽  

The administrative contract is the tool used by the administration to maintain the continuity of the public facility and its steady progress in order to meet the needs of citizens, in way would achieve the public interest. The administrative contract consists of procedures paving the way for its conclusion, represented by the administrative decisions issued by this department with the public authority it has in accordance with the laws and regulations. These decisions are part of and component of the administrative contract. Therefore, the elements of the administrative contract are; that the public authority is one of its parties, the contract relates to a public facility service, and the contract should be subject to public law. However, the conditions of validity of the contract are; the administration shall abide by the laws and regulations in selecting the contractor, the administrative contract includes contractual and regulatory provisions and, and the public person has a generic feature throughout the life of an administrative contract. Key words; administrative law, administrative decision, elements of administrative law, conditions of validity of administrative contract, legal system of administrative law, conclusion of the administrative contract


2018 ◽  
Vol 277 (3) ◽  
pp. 247
Author(s):  
Rafael Maffini ◽  
Juliano Heinen

<p>Analysis of the incidence of the Statute of Introduction to the Rules of Brazilian Law (in the writing given by Act 13.655/2018) on the interpretation of public law rules: interpretative operations and general principles of administrative law</p><p> </p><p>O presente trabalho pretende analisar as inovações legislativas produzidas pela Lei nº 13.655/2018, bem como suas consequências jurídicas. Tal Diploma Legal modificou o Decreto-Lei nº 4.657/1942, denominado de “Lei de Introdução às Normas do Direito Brasileiro”. Para tanto, o trabalho se dividiu em seis eixos teóricos: primeiro se disserta sobre as modificações legais que traçam parâmetros interpretativos com foco no “consequencialismo” e o “realismo” da interpretação do direito público. Por conseguinte, analisam-se as disposições relativas à segurança jurídica. Em um terceiro plano, confere-se ênfase aos mecanismos legais que franqueiam maior participação e consenso entre a administração pública e o cidadão. Ainda, tratar-se-á de analisar a reponsabilidade das autoridades públicas e dos agentes que atuam na função consultiva. Também a eficiência administrativa será objeto de estudo, percebendo o que a legislação mencionada inovou no tema. Por fim, será demonstrado como a motivação das condutas administrativas, já merecedora da devida importância, dado seu status de princípio constitucional, restou ainda mais prestigiada pela Lei nº 13.655/2018. Analisar-se-á dissertativamente tal legislação, essencialmente em relação aos aspetos relativos à aplicação da Lei de Introdução às Normas do Direito Brasileiro (na redação dada pela Lei nº 13.655/2018) no que concerne à interpretação e aplicação de normas de direito público e, muito particularmente, ao modo como, nessas operações interpretativas, se enformam certos princípios gerais de direito administrativo, a fim de se perceber analiticamente as mudanças e potencialidades feitas pela edição da recente norma.</p><p> </p><p>The present work intends to analyze the legislative innovations produced by Legal Act nº 13.655/2018, as well as its legal consequences. This legislation modified Legal Act nº 4.657/1942, called “Statute of Introduction to the Rules of Brazilian Law”. In order to do so, the work was divided into six theoretical axes: first, it discusses the legal modifications that draw interpretive parameters with a focus on “consequentialism” and the “realism” of the interpretation of Public Law. Consequently, the provisions on legal certainty are examined. In a third plan, emphasis is placed on the legal mechanisms that lead to greater participation and consensus between the Public Administration and the citizen. Also, it will be a question of analyzing the responsibility of the public authorities and of the agents that act in the advices function. Also the administrative efficiency will be object of study, realizing what the mentioned legislation innovated in the subject. Finally, it will be demonstrated how the motivation of administrative conduct, already deserving of due importance, given its status as a constitutional principle, remained even more prestigious under Legal Act nº 13.655/2018. Such legislation will be analyzed, essentially in relation to the aspects related to the incidence of the Statute of Introduction to the Rules of Brazilian Law (in the wording given by Legal act nº 13.655/2018) regarding the interpretation of norms of Law Public and, in particular, to the way in which, in these interpretative operations, certain general principles of Administrative Law are formed, in order to understand analytically the changes and potentialities made by the edition of the recent norm.</p>


Author(s):  
Margit Cohn

This article challenges common understandings about the distinct features of the so-called “mixed jurisdictions”. One of the main features found in this group of legal systems, it is argued, is that they are civil-law in nature in the sphere of private law, while their public law sphere is typically Anglo-American. I argue that this may be correct as far as the structural elements of these two branches of law, for example with regard to the court structure; it may also be relevant in the context of the general, overarching values underlying both branches of law. However, as far as the detailed arrangements are concerned, a variety of set-ups reflect different types of mixes and combinations in all legal systems, including “mixed jurisdictions”: innovation, transplantation and adoption of which can be traced inter alia to global crosscutting between these two families of legal systems.This argument is developed through an analysis of the evolution of three grounds of review of the administration-unreasonableness, proportionality and legitimate expectations/ administrative promise-in the United Kingdom, the “ancestor” of the common law family of legal systems, and in Israel, currently considered a mixed jurisdiction. I show that both innovation and reliance on civil law constructs can be found in both systems just as much as common law constructs. The influence of EU law, especially ECtHR jurisprudence, renders the public law of the United Kingdom, to a certain extent, to be more civil-law-like than its so-called daughter system. Whether this mix of patterns is an unavoidable result of the irresolvable tension between exclusionism and openness, both willful and subjected, or matter that is particular to the distinct nature of administrative law and its case-by-case development in common law systems is a matter for further consideration. Clearly, though, legal reality, at least in the field studied in this article, challenges the viability of the distinction between “pure” and “mixed” legal systems.


2014 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
pp. 375
Author(s):  
Syaparuddin Syaparuddin

<p>This paper is aimed at discussing the critical view of Abdullah Saeed as far as murabahah is concerned. For Saeed, this banking practice, which is adapted and adopted from Syari’ah has caused a lot of controversies. The basic question that a man like him asks is, does this Syari’ah banking system really make a difference? Nonetheless, it is this Syari’ah-based banking product that dominated the whole Islamic banking system in the great majority of Islamic countries. Investigating the nature of this product becomes therefore both strategic and important so as to have a better and proper understanding of it. This proper understanding will in turn influence the way this product is promoted and sold to the public in line with the values of Syari’ah. The paper will also compare murabahah with the similar banking practices in the conventional banks.</p>


Social Law ◽  
2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
D. Tihonova

The article is devoted to the definition of the concept of public-legal dispute in the field of intellectual property, taking into account the specifics of administrative and legal protection of rights in this field. To this end, the rules of procedural law relating to the definition of a public law dispute, the practice of their application, and the relevant doctrinal provisions on the legal protection of intellectual property rights are analyzed. The suitability of certain categories of such disputes to the jurisdiction of administrative courts is substantiated. The author draws attention to the fact that although the concept of "basis" and "condition" of a public-law dispute are not synonymous, it is impossible to deny that they have a large number of common features. In legal literature, the term "foundation" has become widespread, first of all, to indicate the grounds for the emergence of legal relationships. Moreover, there are two sides to this concept: material and legal basis. The legal basis includes, in particular, legal fact and the existence of a rule of law. It was also determined that the condition should be distinguished from the cause which necessarily produces a certain consequence - the legal conflict between the parties to the public-legal relations is at the heart of the public-legal dispute. From a general point of view, conflict is understood as a clash of opposing interests and views, tension and extreme aggravation of contradictions, which leads to active actions, complications, struggles, accompanied by complex conflicts. It is noted that in the case of a particular dispute, a direct condition for the emergence of public-law disputes is the conflict of not just legislative provisions, and in this case the fundamental rights of persons and the corresponding binding norms obliging the subjects of power to enter into conflict. to the administrative court for the exercise of their specific powers.


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